Regulation of Communications Markets

Retail Tariff Regulation

• Reviewing existing tariff policy and guidelines;
• Development and drafting of new policies and resultant legislation;
• Recommending appropriate tariff controls;
• Determining which operators and services should be subject to tariff controls;
• Development of baskets for services subject to tariff control as part of an RPI-X formula;
• Determining price cap values and any sub-cap values to enable tariff rebalancing to take place with the price cap control mechanism.

• Performing a survey of current pricing approaches for a South-East Asian regulator and, on the basis of this, developing a recommended model consistent with international best practice to determine appropriate cost-based retail tariffs for regulated services;
• Developing a tariff regime and price regulation policy for a Middle Eastern regulatory authority. This work included provision of an overview of principles of setting tariffs and tariff rebalancing, undertaking a review of current customer tariffs for fixed and mobile services, studying the impact on tariffs of Quality of Service, universal service and monopoly provider issues, and suggesting an outline proposal for tariff rebalancing of network services;
• Producing a report and accompanying workshop for a Central European government, covering tariff control issues and their relevance to privatisation initiatives.